2021 Anti-Bribery & Corruption Forum

Stuart originally joined BPP CI as a tutor in 2011 and, after 4 years as a senior tutor and ACCA Programme Manager, moved to State Street in order to gain more experience in Guernsey’s fund industry. Whilst there he was Assistant Vice President in the Client Services team, responsible for a range of listed and unlisted private equity funds. He re-joined BPP in 2017 when a senior position became available. Stuart is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Stuart’s experience in the fund industry is broad, spanning 10 years in fund accounting, financial reporting, operational and regulatory compliance, board management, corporate secretarial and administration. This experience is invaluable when it comes to designing and delivering courses in the Professional Development arena across areas such as fund accounting, fund structuring and asset classes, emerging regulation, Anti Money Laundering and compliance. Stuart also delivers numerous courses for the ACCA, Chartered Governance Institute and ACA qualifications, with a focus on strategy, law and audit.

Sonali Patel is an Assistant Chief of the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Unit. In that capacity, Ms. Patel supervises the investigation and prosecution of FCPA and related white-collar cases involving corporations and individuals. Prior to becoming an Assistant Chief, Ms. Patel was a trial attorney in the FCPA Unit from October 2018 to December 2020. Ms. Patel has convicted several individuals in FCPA, money laundering, and tax offenses relating to corruption at Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., and has worked on two corporate resolutions. Prior to joining the Fraud Section, Ms. Patel was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, clerked for the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York. Ms. Patel graduated cum laude from Columbia University, was a Fulbright Scholar, and received her law degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Satnam Tumani is a partner in the Government & Internal Investigations Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Satnam focuses his practice on a range of white collar and corporate crime matters, advising both corporates and individuals, in respect of contentious regulatory cases, government and internal investigations, anti-money laundering issues and compliance advice.

Prior to joining Kirkland in 2012, Satnam spent more than 17 years at the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), including as Head of Bribery and Corruption, where he managed joint English and Scottish case work.

Satnam has become a leading private practitioner for white collar and corporate crime matters with clients commenting that his “enormous experience coupled with his care, attention to detail, courtesy and common sense make him an outstanding practitioner”.

Will Fitzgibbon is a senior ICIJ reporter. He is also ICIJ's Africa and Middle East partnership coordinator. Will joined ICIJ in 2014 and coordinated the Fatal Extraction investigation that examined the impact of Australian mining companies in Africa. It remains one of the largest pan-African collaborations of journalists. Will has reported on ICIJ projects, including West Africa Leaks, Paradise Papers, Luanda Leaks, FinCEN Files and the Panama Papers.

Ed is a director in the Compliance and Regulatory Consulting business in Duff & Phelps’ Jersey office. He has extensive technical and practical knowledge of trust, company, insolvency, regulatory and criminal law which he brings to bear on regulatory assignments involving governance, risk management and AML/CFT arrangements. He regularly acts as a Reporting Professional, conducts regulatory and risk due diligence reviews for buyers and sellers in the fiduciary and fund sectors and as liquidator in Jersey insolvencies. A qualified Chartered Accountant he has worked at Big 4 firms and, more recently, he spent eight years at one of the Channel Island’s leading dispute resolution law firms providing regulatory and other litigation-related professional services.

Elaine has over 30 years’ experience in financial services on the Isle of Man. After almost 20 years with Barclays, Elaine joined the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority as a Manager in their banking supervision team at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 where she spent 8 years supervising a wide range of Isle of Man licence holders ranging from multi-national banks, to small local foreign exchange bureaus and payment service providers. Elaine has been with in the risk consulting team at KPMG since 2017 and provides advice to a wide range of financial services clients.